High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In the fictional world of The Smurfs, Gargamel the sorcerer is the sworn enemy of the Smurfs and the main antagonist in the show and comic books. While described as a wizard in the narration, Gargamel is not depicted as possessing real magical powers to speak of. However, he is quite competent at creating magic potions for various usages and thus could be considered an alchemist, rather than a wizard, of much intrigue. His main goal in life is to destroy the Smurfs or to capture enough of them to create a potion to turn base matter into gold.